Job Description
KV Pharmaceutical seeks a Research Technician. As a Research Technician, you will assist the formulators in developing pharmaceutical dosage forms in conformance with all applicable SOPs, cGMPs and GLPs. The successful candidate will interface with the packaging department to coordinate packaging of research batches and packages pharmaceutical or nutritional products and coordinate the movement of hatches, paperwork, labels and packaging components for the packaging of research batches. You will run packaging lines and perform testing as needed, maintain the notebook, accurately record results and write appropriate reports, and maintain project documentation in an organized manner. The Research Technician will assist formulators in monitoring developed products from the development phase through the production manufacturing stages and assist in troubleshooting production problems with established formulations.
Associate’s Degree with minimum of one year experience in pharmaceutical product development, manufacturing, or QA/QC desired. Packaging experience preferred. The successful candidate will possess good understanding of SOPs GMPs and GLPs, be able to work independently on assignments using standard laboratory techniques, have working knowledge of pharmaceutical ingredients, manufacturing processing equipment and testing equipment and be able to work with R&D Lab to production-scale equipment. If you can coordinate and/or perform packaging operations and can work with minimal supervision apply today. Flexibility needed to work on 2nd or 3rd shifts schedules for scale-up processing, as needed, to fully utilize production equipment. We are seeking individuals who possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, math skills, offer an organized approach to providing timely accurate reports, can multi-task, prioritize, and are proficient in Microsoft Office.
With 13 consecutive years of record revenues, KV Pharmaceutical Company (www.kvph.com), a high-growth organization, has reported a year-over-year net revenue increase of 35.7% to over $600 million for Fiscal 2008.
KV Pharmaceutical (NYSE: KVa/KVb), is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets and acquires technology-distinguished branded and generic/non-branded prescription pharmaceutical products. The Company markets its technology-distinguished products through ETHEX Corporation, a national leader in pharmaceuticals that compete with branded products, and Ther-Rx Corporation, its emerging branded drug subsidiary. With more than 65 years in business, KV applies its 15 unique patent protected and proprietary drug delivery technologies to both the brand and generic/non-branded products.
KV is based in St. Louis, Missouri, which was recently named as a 2008 All-America City by the American City Business Journals, one of Forbes’ “200 Best Metropolitan Areas” in America in 2006. St. Louis was also named the second most affordable large metropolitan area in the country by the National Association of Home Builders in 2005. St. Louis offers a world-class medical community with over 50 general practice, teaching and research hospitals including Washington University and St. Louis University. St. Louis is also rich in education with more than a dozen nationally-recognized four-year universities.
KV Pharmaceutical provides a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) and profit-sharing, health, vision, and dental. We offer competitive salaries and stock options for many positions which have proven to be lucrative to many long-term KV employees.
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